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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Should my company grow to the point of requiring office space, I would have private offices for everyone. My first programming job back in 1974 had fully enclosed private offices with opaque doors and reasonable soundproofing. In later year
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Bitcoin Core Version 0.10.0 Released and Notable Changes(pastebin.com)
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Yep. The US military and their civilian/academic researchers are working on this as part of the future battlespace. The 2015 US military budget has $700 million for drone procurement and R&D.
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
I wonder how many lives would be lost due to failing drones vs lives saved by the timely delivery of medications/defribillators by waypoint-following autonomous air vehicles. The data will most certainly come either from US military us
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Venture capitalists and self funded R&D want rosy market projections. Sadly, based on sentiment from USA residents, like yours I suppose, I predict the USA is going to lead with military applications only for UAVs.
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
To me this is similar to old red flag laws requiring a motor vehicle to be preceded by a person waving a red flag. For fully autonomous vehicles, these US regulations appear to be a barrier. How could merchants pursue autonomous drone deliv
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
An ant stopping a highway roller ...
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Hmmmm. What will they brand the next version? "Browser Two"?
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
I am developing financial software and need to keep customer data and other secrets secure against OS compromise. Servers will have keys stored in a hardware tamper-proof USB. All such data will be strongly encrypted. When possible, the dat
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Compare the Watson text-to-speech voices with Nuance ... Watson http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net/ Nuance http://www.nuance.com/for-business/text-to-speech/vocalizer/... I prefer the W
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
This paper demonstrates that deep neural networks have surprising blind spots when inputs are only slightly perturbed in a certain manner. I wonder if these algorithmically determined adversarial examples can be fed back into the network in
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Another way to look at this ... Broadband is very competitive, therefore Dish could not simply pocket the $3B savings as shareholder profit, instead they lowered the price of their product and services. The $3B was a subsidy to rural US TV
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Windows 8 was a failure in the enterprise desktop market. Loss aversion meant that corporations did not want to train their staff to use an unfamiliar UI, and the great majority of corporations either postponed upgrades or stayed with Windo
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Works OK for me - Chrome on Ubuntu.
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Yeah, back in the day the bitmapped display was so awesome.Look at the proportional fonts and bitmapped image! I was using IBM 3270 terminals, in a special shared room for that purpose, to edit COBOL programs with fixed width fonts - ugh.
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Coincidentally, I spoke at length with a grad student software developer for the RoboCup challenge in which autonomous robots compete. In this particular league, Nao robots are supplied to each team as the standard, making the performance e
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Agreed. My college days Fortran IV only allowed 8 character upper case identifier names - ugh!
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Smalltalk, as used by enterprises in the 1990's was far from simple to program. Object oriented programming is a powerful tool to manage complexity, so Smalltalk programmers at the time used it to introduced then-new programming constr
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
In the early 1990's Visual Works Smalltalk became the language that introduced enterprises to object oriented programming. At FPL, the large Florida electric utility where I worked, we went all-in, received training, and with pricey co
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
The Russians in WWII used a submachine gun, copied from the Finns, to great effect in the urban battle of Stalingrad, the Germans reacted by developing the assault rifle, later copied by the Russians, and eventually by everyone else. The To
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
The US aviation regulators appear to have reasonable constraints on the use of aerial drones for recording this sporting event. One can expect that the precedent will make it easier for future high-value uses. Perhaps too, there will be an
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Interesting that Mongol archers on horseback, in teams of 10 I believe, were the dominant military force over a vast part of euro-asia. You have some good points about the viral videos, but watching them gives credence to how scary 10 Mongo
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Is the answer systemd? Or is that too a hack?
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NYT is a brand that seeks an audience.
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
The article mentions a Wall Street Journal story about GAW Miners and Josh Garza that is well worth reading for those who into cryptocurrencies and also enjoy popcorn.
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Microsoft probably ran out of successful Windows proprietary based companies to buy. Skype, Visio, Yammer, Great Plains Software, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
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Hmmm, I wonder about those super sticky gloves, jerseys, and forearms. A little science and resourcefulness goes a long way in some sports.
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Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework. It uses Apache Kafka for messaging, and Apache Hadoop YARN to provide fault tolerance, processor isolation, security, and resource management.
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Yet another legacy brand disrupted and destroyed.
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This is so awesome. I hope that filmmakers and storytellers learn about how ordinary warrior archers should be actually be depicted in historical and fantasy films.

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